A decade-long legal battle waged by the LGBT community reached an anti-climax on Dec. 11, 2013 when the Supreme Court outlawed gay sex by upholding the colonial-era Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code.
We trace the legal action and the LGBT movement from the first gay pride parade in Kolkata in 1999 to the parade that happened in Delhi last month despite the atmosphere of anxiety forged by the Supreme Court order.
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July 1999
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December 2001
September - November 2004
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December 2004
April 2006
September 2008
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October 2008
July 2009
February 2012
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December 2013
January 2014
April 2014
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